What is a good video recorder for making home movies?

My friends and I are very interested in making home-movies (script-writing, recording, and publishing to YouTube), but we have only been using our iPhones. Since we want to continue the movies, we want to get a better recorder because as everyone knows, iPhones do not have the best recording quality. What is a cheap but reliable recorder for home-movies?

Don't underestimate your iphone, Bently shot their entire commercial with iphones:

Gopros produce good quality but if you can afford it, buy a Canon DLSR they produce great quality and you can upgrade lenses if you ever want to take your movies further. You can find used one quite cheap on craigslist too, look for a t2i, t3, t3i, etc.

Yea the Gopro are good cameras. They have good quality. But they could be a little expensive.

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